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What (who) is dystrophy - definition
MEDICAL TERM
Distrophy; Dystrophia; Dystrophy (disambiguation)
dystrophy
dystrophy
['d?str?fi]
¦ noun Medicine a disorder in which an organ or tissue of the body wastes away. See also muscular dystrophy.
Origin
C19: from mod. L. dystrophia, from Gk dus- 'bad' + -trophia 'nourishment'.
Dystrophy
Dystrophy is the degeneration of tissue, due to disease or malnutrition, most likely due to heredity.
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Dystrophy
Dystrophy is the degeneration of tissue, due to disease or malnutrition, most likely due to heredity.
Examples of use of dystrophy
1. Welby had been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy as a teenager.
2. "We could reprogramme cells to treat diseases such as Parkinson‘s, leukemia or muscular dystrophy.
3. Two are for couples who carry defects for the muscle–wasting disorder Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
4. But when she was a teenager the degenerative illness reflex sympathetic dystrophy was diagnosed.
5. Lewis, national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, was chosen for the prestigious award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences‘ Board of Governors in recognition of his work for the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.